A family running a funeral home navigates life's darkly comic and intimate challenges with measured melancholy.
Bleak, with dark satire. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Max.
For a TV-MA, this one goes further: strong sex and nudity. Beyond that, some violence and frequent strong language.
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When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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